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Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 6559: East of the Lagoon
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| 7 Oct, 2021
| Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Sartori
Posted on 10/07/2021 3:10:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Slide your telescope just east of the Lagoon Nebula to find this alluring field of view in the rich starfields of the constellation Sagittarius toward the central Milky Way. Of course the Lagoon nebula is also known as M8, the eighth object listed in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright nebulae and star clusters. Close on the sky but slightly fainter than M8, this complex of nebulae was left out of Messier's list though. It contains obscuring dust, striking red emission and blue reflection nebulae of star-forming region NGC 6559 at right. Like M8, NGC 6559 is located about 5,000 light-years away along the edge of a large molecular cloud. At that distance, this telescopic frame nearly 3 full moons wide would span about 130 light-years.
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10/07/2021 3:10:32 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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10/07/2021 3:11:00 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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10/07/2021 3:11:01 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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“To find this alluring field of view”
Must have been a long night at the telescope.
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10/07/2021 3:18:35 PM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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10/07/2021 3:21:58 PM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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10/07/2021 3:39:02 PM PDT
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LottieDah
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That’s pretty incredible.
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10/07/2021 4:51:48 PM PDT
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posted on
10/07/2021 5:30:41 PM PDT
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AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
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10/07/2021 5:31:08 PM PDT
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DannyTN
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The view thru the eyepiece is nothing like the photos you see here, the description is more accurate. The bigger the scope, the brighter the image, but it won’t look like this. Still, it’s pretty cool to see.🔭
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10/07/2021 7:36:00 PM PDT
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telescope115
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